Any potential cyber attack, depending on its severity, comes with high repercussions if a threat is not contained swiftly and appropriately. Not only does the average breach cost a business upwards of $4.35M (up 2.6% from 2021), but high-profile incidents have resulted in tremendous reputational damage, which in many cases is hard or impossible to recover from. For starters, there was the recent Royal Mail ransomware attack in January, and in May 2021, the Colonial Pipeline suffered a cyber attack which disrupted fuel deliveries for several days, and this is only scratching the surface.
As cyber attacks become almost daily occurrences, every company – regardless of size and industry – must focus on how they can secure their infrastructure from hackers. There is growing reason to believe that any business will, at some point, fall victim to a cyber attack. The FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) reported that small businesses suffered close to 10,000 cyber attacks every day in 2019, costing an average individual £1,300. What’s more, many businesses have come to realise that they have suffered a breach without even realising it. According to IBM, it takes a company 197…
